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- 1782
- Tarapoto is founded in Peru by Bishop Baltasar Jaime Martínez de Compagnón y Bufanda.
- 1923
- The Main Line South is completed from San Pablo to Los Baños in Laguna, Philippines.
- 1936
- A statue of George Vancouver is dedicated in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1977
- Komyoike station opens along the Semboku Rapid Railway line in Minami-ku, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
- 1981
- A Cunningham Drugs store closes in Southgate, Michigan, after 11 years in business.
- 1991
- Estonia gains de facto independence from the Soviet Union, succeeding the Latvian SSR.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on August 20, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on August 20 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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